While we in Malta waste hundreds of hours of police time, and thousands of liri – soon to be euros – raiding bars cum pole-dancing venues for titillating sex to finally accuse girls of wearing a thong,...

A relative informed me that whether women should work or not was the topic of discussion on last week’s Xarabank. I got on with lighting the fire because I couldn’t trust myself to speak. It’s 2006. ...

We live in a world of change so fast that the younger generation is hard put to it to keep up with its tempo – which explains why the latter-day younger generation has its eyes fixed on the present and the future, and ...

These past weeks I had the chance to visit the vast restoration work taking place around the island. The last one was in Zurrieq where an upgrading exercise bore fruit....

Economic data is continuing to show a general improvement in Malta’s economic performance. Provisional estimates for the third quarter of 2006 indicated an annual GDP growth in real terms of 2.7 per cent. ...

EU Agriculture ministers will once again discuss and possibly reach a political agreement on the proposed Council regulation on organic production ...

Piergiorgio Welby, a 60-year-old Italian, is hooked up to machines that keep him alive. ...

I read with interest an interview with the new president of the Association of Local Councils, Michael Cohen ...

Fifty-eight years ago, the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. After the terror that the world experienced due to World War II, the allies wanted to protect humanity from another massacre....

Sticking to tradition is not my forte. Many a time I have preferred to opt for a different, unconventional approach...